The Command Prompt is an extremely useful tool for the Windows operating system. Microsoft has kept this command line interpreter application in almost all Windows versions. It is officially known as Windows Command Processor and is also referred to as cmd.exe, cmd prompt and command shell. It is used just like MS-DOS, that is, the commands ... Read more
You can use capture image to create a reference image of a sysprepped Windows operating system, this task is also known as image capture or creating boot images to deploy them on your network. This tutorial will walk you through the steps to create a capture image from an existing boot image in Windows deployment ... Read more
When working with your computer, you have probably come across files in .zip or .rar format. These are so-called packed or compressed files. Their function is to store multiple files and/or folders in a single file and compress them so that they are easier to send and waste less space. Windows has a built-in function ... Read more
When you try to copy files from your hard drive to an external device such as an external hard drive or USB stick, you may get an error message saying that there is no free space left on your device, even though you just deleted everything to make room. This is most likely due to ... Read more
Functions in Powershell are called without any comma or parenthesis, although they are defined using them. The correct way to call a function with two variable parameters would be: test $local1 $local2 The wrong way is: test($local1, $local2) If you put parentheses around your parameters, your input is treated as an array and thus the ... Read more
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is used for encryption and decryption, processing of S/MIME signed or encrypted mails, generation of certificates, and more. To use it on Windows (32 and 64 bit versions), download the OpenSSL tools from code.google.com/p/openssl-for-windows/downloads/list. Uncompress it anywhere you like and start it by double-clicking the openssl.exe executable in the \bin folder. ... Read more
You may require in some cases to check an active directory for newly created users so you can send them an email. You may also require to get newly added users for auditing or security purposes. You can get the active directory users created in last 24 hours by using this script. Feel free to change it for ... Read more
PowerShell scripts are hard to run without any kind of popup. Without using the small workaround that I will show you here, it may even be impossible. Even if you specify the -WindowStyle Hidden switch - this will only result in the PowerShell window blinking up for a split second and disappearing afterward. You can ... Read more
DHCP is used to dynamically assign IP addresses to client machines. This tutorial is written to help you to install and configure the DHCP service on Windows Server 2016. Once you have followed this article, go ahead with creating scopes and start leasing out IP addresses (which I have documented in another article). Prerequisites The ... Read more
This guide gives you an overview of code commenting options in PowerShell. Just like any other programming language, you can comment out code in a PowerShell script for documentation purposes. Single-line comments in PowerShell To comment out a single line, put '#' in the beginning: Multiline Comments in PowerShell To comment out multiple lines, put ... Read more